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Fricking


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is thus at least one example each of two-and three-dimensional forms which conform to the low concentration analysis up to 100% volume and so give a basis for the extensions to other and more complicated forms to complete a survey to work begun by Fricke in 1923.
  • (2) This work reports the results of an experiment carried out to investigate the compatibility of TG-21 ion chamber calibration with Fricke dosimetry near the extremes of the clinically available megavoltage photon energy range.
  • (3) First, we have to evaluate the equilibrium parameters, KF and n. Frick has shown how to determine those parameters for multicomponent solutions.
  • (4) The sensitivity is a factor of about six higher compared to ordinary ferrous sulphate solution, known as 'Fricke'.
  • (5) This permits a dose measurement which shows compared to the usual dosimetry of Fricke above all following advantages: dose specification related to water; displacement of the absorption maximum in the perceptible spectral sphere; increase of the sensibility and lower influence of pollutions.
  • (6) Furthermore, the Fricke constant phase model in which alpha = beta and phi = 0.5 pi beta was found not to be applicable in general.
  • (7) An extension of the model is made to describe the spin-lattice relaxation behavior of irradiated Fricke solution.
  • (8) Myotis [Frick 1952]), the tympanic cavity extends into the Recessus scalae tympani displacing the Membrana tympani secundaria medially from the lateral aperture of the Recessus scalae tympani (= Fenestra rotunda of mammals) and even into the plane of the Foramen perilymphaticum.
  • (9) Although Frick's methodological criticisms are well taken, there is additional evidence suggesting that response force can be strengthened by reinforcement and that such learning generalizes across behaviors.
  • (10) The Frick Collection , with its magnificent portrait of Philip in scarlet silk , had not yet been imagined, for Henry Frick was still a boy.
  • (11) In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the city was home to many of America's most successful "robber baron" industrialists, including Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Mellon brothers, as well as Henry John Heinz, the founder of the Heinz food company.
  • (12) With trimesic acid (1, 3, 5-benzentricarboacid) absorbed doses can be detected which are 1000 times smaller than with the Fricke solution.
  • (13) George Frick, generally regarded as the first American physician to limit his practice to ophthalmology, was also the first American to author a textbook on the eye.
  • (14) Dosimetry was performed with both Fricke dosimetry and ionization chamber.
  • (15) If you haven’t encountered Poehler yet, walk away from this article and please don’t come back until you’ve watched her performances in Mean Girls, Blades of Glory, Baby Mama, every clip of hers from Saturday Night Live (especially the time she rapped about Sarah Palin when she was about 10-and-a-half-months pregnant – in front of Sarah Palin ) and, most of all, Parks and Recreation, the best new US sitcom in fricking ages.
  • (16) In addition, the Maxwell-Fricke mixture theory was used to estimate the amount of hydrated water that relaxes far below 1 GHz.
  • (17) To exploit poor Oscar Wilde rather shamelessly, to mention Mail Online once is unfortunate, to do so twice suggests one needs to stop procrastinating so much by looking at Mail Online and do some fricking work as opposed to lobotomising oneself by reading yet more stories about how the dress of someone called Miranda Kerr fluttered slightly in the wind on her way to lunch.
  • (18) It took Sweden 18 minutes to get a shot on target but, when they did, it put them ahead, Marcus Berg holding off the challenge of Liechtenstein’s captain, Mario Frick, before shooting in.
  • (19) Various practical aspects of the NMR-Fricke system, such as the optimal initial ferrous concentration and the NMR frequency dependence of the sensitivity, are described.
  • (20) The Fricke constant phase model is a better representation of electrode behavior, but it also may not be valid in general.

Pricking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prick
  • (n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
  • (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
  • (n.) Same as Nicking.
  • (n.) A sensation of being pricked.
  • (n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
  • (n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results have implications in utilizing codeine phosphate as a positive skin prick test control for allergy testing.
  • (2) The diagnosis of occupational allergy was based on history, skin prick tests and RAST to the pollen.
  • (3) Prick tests performed on 16 different condom brands showed that 4 brands caused positive reactions in 52-67% of patients.
  • (4) One hundred and forty-four had non-allergic and 69 allergic asthma verified retrospectively by positive skin prick test in 1988.
  • (5) The results of this investigation are clearly in contrast to earlier earlier reports, in that there was a very good correlation between prick test, RAST and case history.
  • (6) The prick tests, using both commercial allergens and specific extracts prepared from the most common types of coffee and their corresponding sacks, confirmed a sensitization in 21 workers (9.6%).
  • (7) There were statistically significant exposure-response relations between exposure and symptoms from eyes and upper airways, dry cough, positive skin prick test, and specific IgE and IgG antibodies.
  • (8) The effect of 4.4 mg azelastine administered orally on airway responsiveness, skin prick testing, daily peak expiratory flow rates and symptoms of asthma was compared with placebo in a 7 week double-blind, parallel group study of 24 patients with extrinsic asthma.
  • (9) Subjective pain ratings of mucosal pin-prick decreased a surprisingly small degree after application of both solutions.
  • (10) Having said that, though, the man is clearly a bit of a prick and one with a serial addiction to publicity."
  • (11) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
  • (12) In comparison with conventional allergen preparations immunologically characterized allergens were tested by skin-prick-tests for reactions.
  • (13) Exclusion of asthmatics and taking into account smoking and skin prick test positivity yielded mostly similar results.
  • (14) The results of the Phadezym-RAST and IgE-Quick correlated very well (r = 0.96) and both in-vitro methods corresponded to the Skin-Prick-Test (greater than 90%).
  • (15) Throughout history there have been periods of wild exuberance followed by the pricking of bubbles.
  • (16) By skin prick testing comparable results were obtained with both extracts.
  • (17) In both groups of patients, there was a low incidence of the causes of post-cordotomy pain recurrence contralateral to the lesion, i.e., deafferentation pain, fading of analgesia, and pain above the levels up to which deep pin-prick analgesia had been obtained.
  • (18) In making a computerized cephalometric analysis, first the film should be traced, and the landmarks pricked and manually digitalized into an X-Y coordinate system.
  • (19) Sections of eggs, fixed 20 to 60 s following fertilization or pricking, show that the tubular cisternae have disappeared and the clusters of cisternae have opened to give rise to longer cisternae arranged in chains.
  • (20) Bronchial responsiveness to histamine and skin prick test reactions to airborne allergens were measured in a random population sample of 891 adults and 1293 schoolchildren.

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